A man charged with attempting to murder three children has been declared fit to stand trial.
Riad Bouchaker is charged with the attempted murder of two girls and one boy in Dublin’s Parnell Square in 2023.
The 51-year-old, who is of no fixed abode, is also charged with assault causing serious harm to a care worker.
Bouchaker is further charged with three counts of assault causing harm, as well as the possession and production of a 36cm kitchen knife.
At the Central Criminal Court on Friday, Mr Justice Tony Hunt made a ruling on Bouchaker’s fitness to stand trial after considering medical and psychiatric evidence.
Bouchaker was present in court for the proceedings, which were translated for him by an Arabic interpreter.
Mr Justice Hunt said: “My finding is Riad Bouchaker is currently fit to stand trial.”
A five-year-old girl and a woman in her 30s were left in a critical condition in hospital after the attack near a school on 23 November.
Two other young children, a five-year-old boy and six-year-old girl, were also injured.
The attack happened hours before a riot broke out in the centre of the capital.
